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Economic liberalization and savings rates
Mansori, Kashif S. - 2001
This paper considers the possibility that economic liberalization, by which is meant a reduction in tariffs, quotas, capital controls, and other government distortions of international transactions, may reduce private savings rates. A two stage approach is used to analyze a panel data set...
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The third generation (UMTS) spectrum auction in Germany
Grimm, Veronika; Riedel, Frank; Wolfstetter, Elmar - 2001
The third generation UMTS auction in Germany raised an enormous amount of revenue, and at the same time achieved a more competitive market structure than other UMTS auctions in Europe. The present paper explains the design of that auction, and presents a game theoretic explanation of observed...
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Innovation of network goods : a non-innovating firm will gain
Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa; Mustonen, Mikko - 2002
We consider duopolists innovating and producing a good subject to network externalities, so that the reservation price of a consumer increases with aggregate consumption. The post-innovation network consists of two compatible sub-networks, with increased network valuation of the new product....
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The Dutch UMTS-auction
Damme, Eric E. C. van - 2002
In this paper I review the Dutch UMTS-auction that took place in the summer of 2000 and which, in contrast to the UK and German auctions, was generally considered to be a major flop. I analyse the policy process leading to the auction as well as the bidding behaviour in the auction, and provide...
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Efficient level of SEPs licensing
Langus, Gregor; Lipatov, Vilen - 2022
We study the question whether a holder of standard essential patents (SEPs) should be allowed to choose the level in the value chain at which to offer a FRAND license to its SEPs. We give a pos-itive answer to this question for two reasons. First, the SEP holder and the social planner tend to...
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Telecommunication submarine-cable deployment and the digital divide in Sub-Saharan Africa
Cariolle, Joël - 2018
The recent deployment of fibre-optic submarine cables (SMCs) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) raised the prospects for the digital economy expansion and the whole sub-continent take-off, but also exposed countries and populations to new sources of vulnerability. This paper provides empirical evidence...
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Deregulation, entry of foreign banks and bank efficiency in Australia
Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Williams, Barry - 2002
This study considers the efficiency of banking in Australia during the post-deregulation period 1988-2001. Since 1986 … banks have used size as a barrier to entry to the new entrants in the post-deregulation period. Furthermore, bank efficiency … seems to have increased post-deregulation and the competition resulting from diversity in bank types was important to prompt …
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A look upstream : electricity market restructuring, risk, procurement contracts and efficiency
Di Maria, Corrado; Lange, Ian; Lazarova, Emiliya A. - 2014 - This version: November 25, 2014
This paper analyzes theoretically and empirically how upstream markets are affected by deregulation downstream …. Deregulation tends to increase the level of uncertainty in the upstream market. Our theoretical analysis predicts that deregulated … plants. On the other hand, we also find that transaction costs may have increased as a consequence of deregulation. …
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Pareto-improving structural reforms
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2018
elastic to net post-tax real wages, and hence reduced by taxation. In a setting where preferences are isoelastic, deregulation … regulation for some goods. I provide sufficient conditions for deregulation, i.e. a general reduction in price floors, to be …
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Entry barriers and the labor market outcomes of incumbent workers : evidence from a deregulation reform in the German crafts sector
Lergetporer, Philipp; Ruhose, Jens; Simon, Lisa - 2018
We study the labor market outcomes of a deregulation reform in Germany that removed licensing requirements to become …
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